Mr. Difficult Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Discomfort Zone
Franzen JonathanMr. DifficultThe Discomfort Zone episode is here! In this episode we talked to @scaachi about Jonathan Franzen's quasi-memoir, a weird, horny, book about being a horny weirdo. https://mrdifficult.com/episode-11-the-discomfort-zone/
Paperback, 2007
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How to Be Alone
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultOur episode on Franzen's essay collection How to Be Alone is now up! Here we talk with guest @blgtylr about the moment Oprah found out Jonathan Franzen was talking shit. https://mrdifficult.com/episode-9-how-to-be-alone/ https://t.co/yJDLxNH6YU
Paperback, 2003
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Freedom
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultIn our latest episode, we discuss Jonathan Franzen's fourth and most Franzen-y novel, Freedom, with novelist/hater @jakebackpack https://mrdifficult.com/episode-5-freedom/
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Freedom
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultIn our latest episode, we discuss Jonathan Franzen's fourth and most Franzen-y novel, Freedom, with novelist/hater @jakebackpack https://t.co/XVPz0J12aM
Paperback, 2021
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The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultThe End of the End of the Earth podcast is here! We'll have one more after this (ranking all 13 Jonathan Franzen books) but this is our final book-focused episode of this season! https://t.co/QIBRoDgn6u
Paperback, 2020
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Strong Motion
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultIn episode two we discuss Strong Motion, a convoluted, angry, and deeply horny book about earthquakes, radio station maintenance, and the environmental history of Boston that also might be the most 1990s novel ever written. http://mrdifficult.com/episode-2-strong-motion/
Paperback, 2021
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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultIn our latest episode, we're joined by novelist @nellzink to discuss The Kraus Project, Franzen's annotated translations of several essays by Karl Kraus. https://mrdifficult.com/episode-10-the-kraus-project/ https://t.co/lyYsugMYgL
Hardcover, 2013
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Farther Away
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultFarther Away by Jonathan Franzen (2012) https://t.co/YxUIjDuD5b
Paperback, 2013
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Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultPart two of our look at Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads is now up! We had a great conversation with @publicroad about the book's depiction of faith, where its characters are headed, and the Middlemarch connection https://mrdifficult.com/episode-8-crossroads-part-2/
Paperback, 2022
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The Corrections
Jonathan FranzenMr. DifficultOur latest episode is about Noah Baumbach and Jonathan Franzen's unaired, unfinished, and not very good HBO pilot of The Corrections http://mrdifficult.com/episode-4-the-corrections-pilot/
Paperback, 2021
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